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From: bill@thd.tv.TEK.COM (William K. McFadden)
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Subject: Re: What's up with RDAT?
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Date: 9 May 91 12:56:01 GMT
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In article <11820@uwm.edu> winalski@psw.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>In article <11685@uwm.edu>,
>bill%thd.tv.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (William K. McFadden) writes that DCC will
>require an encode/decode for each digital copy, with information loss at
>each step.
>
>Are DCC decks, then, only going to have SPDIF digital interfaces, which
>have this signal loss property, or will there be another digital interface,
>usable for DCC->DCC copies, that just sends over the encoded bits?

As far as I know, they will only have the SPDIF connectors.  Of course,
given enough demand, the manufacturers might be willing to include a
direct DCC-to-DCC mode for copying, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
Remember, DCC was designed to be a format for the masses.
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